Title :
Surface coil artifact attenuation and normality testing of MRI data
Author :
Adams, Ann H. ; Carman, Charles S. ; Merickel, Michael B.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Biomed. Eng., Virginia Univ., Charlottesville, VA, USA
Abstract :
One niche for image processing is in the attenuation of image artifacts, especially those resulting from surface coil use. An algorithm is introduced which successfully reduces surface coil artifacts while maintaining useful image information. The artifact-suppression procedure has been tested on images from both breast and spine coils. The corrected images exhibit improvement in tissue class statistics.<>
Keywords :
biomedical NMR; computerised picture processing; patient diagnosis; NMR imaging data; algorithm; breast; image processing; normality testing; spine; surface coil artifact attenuation; tissue class statistics;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1988. Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
New Orleans, LA, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-0785-2
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.1988.94575
